Three Good Things (3GT) - Intervention for Transitional Care Patients

NCT ID: NCT04970641

Last Updated: 2024-04-10

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: TERMINATED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 25 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2021-09-30
• Study Completion Date: 2023-12-01

Brief Summary

Researchers are doing this research study to learn how the Three Good Things (3GT) Positive Psychology journaling activity affects symptoms of stress, depression, resilience, and happiness.

Detailed Description

The purpose of this study is to measure, rank and categorize the subject sample of depression, stress, resilience and happiness scores using quantitative surveys. This research aims to learn how a Three Good Things (3GT) journaling activity affects a subject's symptoms of stress, depression, resilience and happiness. The data will allow the project team to gain an in-depth understanding of the impact of the use of resilience strategies from a hospitalized patient's perspective. The project aims to review if there is a correlation between stress, depression, resiliency, and happiness scores to the use of Positive Psychology.

Conditions

Positive Thinking; Psychology, Positive; Resilience, Psychological

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

3GT journaling group

Subjects will participate in the Three Good Things (3GT) Positive Psychology journaling activity daily for six weeks.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Three Good Things (3GT) Positive Psychology journaling activity

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Evening journaling activity each day to reflect on three good things that the subject has noticed about their day's events.

Non-journaling group

Subjects will not participate in the evening journal activity.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Three Good Things (3GT) Positive Psychology journaling activity

Evening journaling activity each day to reflect on three good things that the subject has noticed about their day's events.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Individuals ≥ 18 years of age.
• Current inpatient at the Mayo Clinic Health System Bloomer Hospital, Bloomer, Wisconsin (a Swing Bed Hospital as defined by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)).
• Able to speak English.
• Able to answer questionnaires.

Exclusion Criteria

• Individuals < 18 years of age.
• Patient unwilling or unable to provide consent to participate in this research study.
• Patient under guardianship.
• As determined through self-report, patient in active psychosis, active suicidal ideation, active substance abuse meeting criteria for substance use disorders except for nicotine (the exception is patients with a history of substance abuse that have been in remission for at least one full year).
• Patient diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, active panic disorder with agoraphobia or other phobic disorder, active Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or active severe personality disorders.
• Patient with previous participation in this study.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Mayo Clinic

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Lori M. Miller

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Lori M Miller, MAOM, RN

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Mayo Clinic

Locations

Mayo Clinic Health System Bloomer Hospital

Bloomer, Wisconsin, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

21-003878

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id